Lucknow: Politicians' love cameras is well known but the Mayor of an Uttar Pradesh town took his love for the same a little too far.
The Mayor of UP’s Moradabad town and senior BJP leader Vinod Agarwal reportedly ‘donated’ blood for the camera on the occasion of prime minister Narendra Modi’s birth day on September 17.
A video, which went viral on social media, purportedly showed the Mayor lying on the bed at a blood donation camp organized at the BJP party office on this occasion in the town.
The Mayor is seen laughing as a paramedic prepares to check his blood pressure and then is seen asking the doctor not to proceed. The paramedic is seen holding a needle and as he proceeds, the Mayor suddenly gets up from the bed and leaves the room.
A little later there was a post on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) along with the video stating that ‘’discharged social responsibility by donating blood’’ on the occasion of prime minister Narendra Modi.
Agarwal, when queried in this regard after the video went viral termed it a conspiracy by his rivals to defame him.
He said that he had gone to the blood donation camp to donate blood but the doctor, when told that he was diabetic, said that he could not donate blood.
Published 20 September 2024, 12:49 IST